It wasn't that bad until I actually slept a week in my truck in my
backyard, no people, sounds of rats running everywhere, just looked like
chemical warfare. Before it happened, you walked around the corner to
the drug store, you walked to the neighborhood store and the
neighborhood wino ask you for a quarter, like he ask you everyday, you
don't think those sort of things are important, until they're not there.
I'm trying to decide whether I stay in New Orleans, or leave New
Orleans. I mean I've lived all of the United States and came back here.
This was the Home Port, as we called it, now, no more home. And a lot of
people are not coming back because they don't want to feel this way
again, you know it's just, it's too hard to see it this way. I don't
know if it's that I feel everything I love is gone, or what, I'm just
not happy here anymore.
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